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Also, I think identity politics on the back end is a lot more damaging than identity politics in the product itself. Superficial virtue signaling is eyeroll worthy, but for a product to be this unappealing, you have to hire bad employees, probably because you're not hiring based on merit. How did such incredibly unappealing character designs get made, and then approved, and then no one else at the company noticed how terrible the designs were?

A lot of them probably did, but they probably were shut down by their peers or some clueless executive (that didn’t get in the top by DEI (neither merit  )).

Like the Dustborn dude, the leadership was probably clueless in that aspect. Many people have said that the game is not terrible per se, but not fun enough to overcome the barrier of “this guys look like dogshit” for 40 dollars.